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Another melee base?

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Aki:
Instead of continuing to talk about this in the small questions thread, I thought this might deserve it's own topic:


--- Quote from: Eyro on October 16, 2013, 06:00 ---I said we need more melee bases. The only normal melee base is the knife. For pistols, only one is the pistol. Shotgun has 3 different bases, and chainfire has 2.

And I see more Shotgun/Chainfire random specials than pistol or melee.

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--- Quote from: White Rider on October 16, 2013, 23:30 ---Technically unarmed is a melee base too, since Sunrise Iron Fist.
But personally I wouldn't mind having a better non-unique/exotic melee weapon that's a step up from the combat knife. Maybe like a...sword or something.

* White Rider tries to imagine a Doomguy with a sword and gothic armor
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I suppose this discussion could be extended to pistols somewhat, although they seem fine to me.

What do you think?

2birds1stone:
I would be very happy and laugh very hard if swords were introduced as an exotic.

Would chainsword then change to a sword assembly, and would a knife assembly/knives get buffed?

What about, I dunno, a hook-chain-type-weapon which pulls enemies in from a distance? High initial damage but you're then restricted to using fists until you kill them?

Aki:

--- Quote from: 2birds1stone on October 17, 2013, 03:19 ---I would be very happy and laugh very hard if swords were introduced as an exotic.

Would chainsword then change to a sword assembly, and would a knife assembly/knives get buffed?

What about, I dunno, a hook-chain-type-weapon which pulls enemies in from a distance? High initial damage but you're then restricted to using fists until you kill them?

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Not bad ideas, the hook-chain might be hard to impliment, but how would you balance it?

thelaptop:
By its centre of mass.

I'm moving towards no more melee "base" weapons.  If there's anything to add though, it would be knuckledusters -- small boost to fist-only and still believable in the Doom-verse.

LuckyDee:
Have a look at the WH40K weapons list: swords, hammers, axes, power fists...

I must say I like the hook+chain idea, too.

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